The Accountant of Auschwitz at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
/The Accountant of Auschwitz premieres this Sunday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Here’s a brief clip of the documentary:
http://realscreen.com/…/hot-docs-18-exclusive-clip-from-th…/
The documentary, in which I’m featured, recounts the trial of Oskar Gröning, the Auschwitz bookkeeper convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison. Gröning's job at Auschwitz was to collect and document victims’ belongings before they were led to their death.
With most Nazi war criminals dead or dying, the portion I’m in focuses on my pursuit of mass murderer Haralds Puntulis, who killed more than 5,000 Latvian Jews before escaping to Toronto.
Here’s how I got involved hunting Nazis: